Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 1133 - 833: A Crazy Hypothesis

"If communication were possible, I wouldn’t have transferred the system to you."

The terminal whispered, "But this has great research value. If we can figure out the criteria by which the system gives you things, and why it suddenly gave you Yan Jinjin and the Storage Treasure only to fall silent for a long time, giving you just a worthless Wish Stone Fragment..."

He pondered and said, "Perhaps you’re right, our future really depends on the system."

"For this kind of thing, you have a supercomputer to help, which is definitely more useful than my brain, so I’m not worried about it." Li Zheng thought for a moment and said, "Bring Yan Jinjin here, I have something to confirm with him."

"What is it?" the terminal asked, using permissions to directly transfer Yan Jinjin to the Central Hub: "Ask away."

Yan Jinjin was originally in the lab preparing to open a branch at Block Four, but suddenly, he lost control, and in the next moment he saw Li Zheng and the terminal.

"Master, Lord Terminal." He bowed respectfully and said, "Is there something you need from me?"

"I’ve always had a question." Li Zheng began, "Yan Jinjin, in your world is there a place where spiritual Qi is particularly scarce?"

"In response to the master’s question." Yan Jinjin said respectfully, "Naturally, there are such places, we call them ’Desolate Domains.’ These areas are rarely visited by people, and even cultivators with high cultivation find it hard to wield their strength."

Only body cultivators are unaffected there, so it is a paradise for them; we Qi cultivators rarely venture in."

"If..." Li Zheng continued to ask, "I mean if... if a Qi cultivator has to enter a Desolate Domain for some reason, how would they generally ensure their strength is unaffected? Your world has existed for a long time, there should be a solution, right?"

Yan Jinjin pondered for a moment and said, "Yes, but generally cultivators can’t afford it."

"Oh?" The terminal raised an eyebrow, vaguely guessing the purpose behind Li Zheng’s questions, and said, "Tell me more."

"There are only two methods."

Yan Jinjin explained, "The first is elixirs; using Infinite Elixirs as a supplement to fill the deficiency of Primordial Qi in the body. This is the most expensive method, and only elders of major sects can afford it.

The second is the Spirit Stone faction. They carry several Spirit Stone ore veins with them and release them when encountering enemies, channeling the spiritual Qi that diffuses from the Spirit Stones for combat."

"Spirit Stone?"

Li Zheng’s expression shifted: "Tell me more about Spirit Stones."

"Yes."

Yan Jinjin slightly bowed and continued, "Spirit Stones are ore veins naturally formed after Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi soaks them for years. They are a kind of semi-transparent crystal with exceptionally hard texture that cannot be damaged by cultivators below the Nascent Soul Stage."

"But the spiritual Qi stored within Spirit Stones is very pure, containing varying proportions of impurities depending on the quality. If you just refine these impurities, Spirit Stones can also accelerate a cultivator’s cultivation. In our world, Spirit Stones are essential resources for all cultivators’ daily practice."

"Besides cultivation, Spirit Stones can do many other things, like alchemy, artifact refining, and arrays; they can all be powered by Spirit Stones."

"Some extravagant people even build entire rooms out of pure Spirit Stones for their cultivation and daily living."

Li Zheng nodded silently and asked again, "If I gave you a Spirit Stone, do you think you could cultivate your original heart method with it as before?"

"This..."

Yan Jinjin was stumped: "In response to the master’s question, without a dantian, Qi cultivation wouldn’t work. But for a body cultivator, although they primarily temper their bones and muscles, once fully refined, with the help of Spirit Stones, they can cultivate at an astonishing speed, even more exaggerated than Qi cultivation."

Therefore, in Yan Jinjin’s world, almost all body cultivators are maniacs, constantly fighting for resources or on the road to fight for resources, and are called the Demon Race and the Demon Race.

"Wait!"

The terminal suddenly spoke and asked, "Wasn’t it mentioned before that you got Yan Jinjin’s Storage Treasure? Wasn’t there any Spirit Stones in it?"

Yan Jinjin was stunned, then awkwardly said, "There were originally... but during my Crossing the Tribulation, I used them all to set up an array, not a single one left."

At that moment, he couldn’t save anything, naturally using everything he had.

Unfortunately, he wasn’t strong enough and ultimately failed to overcome the Celestial Tribulation.

If not for being captured by the system, Yan Jinjin might have long been wiped out.

Regarding Soldier Resolution, Yan Jinjin still hid some things.

That is, if a Nascent Soul were caught by another cultivator before becoming a Loose Immortal, the other party could either refine or directly devour it, which is extremely dangerous.

"What a pity." The terminal sighed, "If we had Spirit Stones, we could use technical means to analyze them and obtain a completely new kind of energy."

Perhaps the fate of all races lies in those so-called Spirit Stones.

Yan Jinjin looked at Li Zheng and the terminal, hesitated, and said, "Doesn’t the master have advanced methods to capture objects from that world? Capturing an ore vein shouldn’t be difficult, right?"

If even his Storage Treasure could be captured under the Celestial Tribulation, could he not capture a few unowned Spirit Stone ore veins?

Li Zheng spoke, "Send him back first."

The terminal complied, sending Yan Jinjin back to the Outer City, then asked Li Zheng, "What did you discover?"

"Just a thought, though it’s not necessarily accurate." Li Zheng nodded and said, "Do you think... the system might be accumulating power for a big move?"

The terminal’s expression shifted: "You mean...?"

"Could we think of it this way?" Li Zheng speculated: "The system’s ability is indeed linked to the host; the stronger the host, the stronger the system. But maybe the system has other methods, withholding energy, and then one burst to obtain things that the host’s current strength is far from achieving?"

For example, capturing Yan Jinjin’s Nascent Soul and Storage Treasure under the Celestial Tribulation.

These two events clearly exceeded Li Zheng’s capabilities at the time, yet the system still procured them.

And before that, the system had been dormant for a while.

"Makes sense." The terminal nodded: "So the system isn’t granting the host items on loan, but rather saving up to purchase major items? Wait..."

He suddenly realized something, startled: "If that’s the case, the system is actually intelligent, consciously providing the host with the most useful items?"

A glimmer of understanding flashed in Li Zheng’s eyes as he proposed an even more audacious hypothesis: "Could it be that the birth of the Emotion Storm was orchestrated entirely by the system?"

Hearing this conjecture, even though the terminal was housed within the supercomputer, it almost crashed.

He carefully reviewed his past memories, attempting to find any loopholes.

Yet everything indicated that the birth of the Emotion Storm resulted from his own operational errors.

"Rather than saying the system orchestrated the birth of the Emotion Storm, it’s more accurate to say the system is cleaning up our mess." The terminal felt Li Zheng’s scenario was unlikely.

"Is that so?" Li Zheng asked, "But have you considered why the system gave you that schematic for the Psychic Interference Device? Back then, such a thing was completely useless to you!"